+our goal is to spread this knowledge freely to all humanity. People knowing of our existence is a prerequisite to them using our knowledge. +We get attention, and hence donations
Your point on immediatism is a problem for WP, but is the whole purpose of WN. If more contributors were aware of the split here, and tried to keep "breaking news" on WN, and then moved to WP after the story has settled down and the page been locked, then there would be less of a problem and more inter-project coordination. Breaking news simply is not, and should not be, the purview of Wikipedia.
--Andrew Whitworth